Frappes @ McDonalds

So I tasted the new frappes @ McDonalds...they must not know about Nescafe and a "shaker" because it tasted nothing like the real thing.  Not bad though.

http://www.mcdonalds.com.au/HTML/ourFood/mccafeCoffeesDrinks.asp

 

Tripolis

Tripoli (Greek: Τρίπολη, Trípoli, formerly Τρίπολις, Trípolis; rarely Tripolitsa, Tripolitza and Tripolizza) is a city in the central part of the Peloponnese, Greece, and the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia. The municipality is the largest city in the prefecture as well and presently one of the few growing places in Arcadia. The distance from Pyrgos is about 145 km E, 125 km E of Olympia, 144 km SE of Patras and ESE of Kalavryta, 78 km (old: 120 km) SW of Corinth and about 148 (old: 200 km) WSW of Athens, W of Argos and Nafplio, NW of Leonidi, N of Sparta, NNE of Kalamata, 33 km NE of Megalopoli and NE of Kyparissia, E of Stemnitsa and ESE of Dimitsana. Today Tripoli is the seat of the recently founded University of the Peloponnese with two departments of the Sciences and Technology School and one department of the Economics and Administration School.

History

In the Middle Ages, the place was known as Drobolitsa, Droboltsá, or Dorboglitza, either from the Greek Hydropolitsa, 'Water City' or perhaps from the South Slavic for 'Plain of Oaks'.^[3]

Modern Tripolis was created in 1770 near the ruins of the ancient cities of Pallantron, Tegea, and Mantinea, hence its name Τρίπολης = τρεις πόλεις 'three cities', presumably chosen to explain the medieval name. Before the Greek Revolution, it had a large Muslim and Jewish population, but also served as the central point for Ottoman occupation and rule over Greece.

During the Greek War of Independence, Tripolis was the first major city to be taken by the Greeks; it fell to Theodoros Kolokotronis on October 17, 1821 "amid frightful scenes of pillage and massacre of Muslims and Turks";^[4] when Ibrahim Pasha retook the city on June 22, 1825, he massacred the entire Christian population and burned the city.^[5]

After it was retaken by the Greeks in 1829, Tripolis became a major centre of the independent Greek state. In 1829, members of a Greek scientific committee met in Tripoli, according to the depiction of an early nineteenth-century lithograph scene by St. Aulaire.^{[citation needed]}

Hatzigiannis Sunday Night Concert Canceled

Tonight's concert has been canceled due to "technical difficulties."  The concert is rescheduled for tomorrow night.